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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2022
Verifone, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
David Godwin, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Robert J. Hutzenbiler, Bradenton, FL (US);
VeriFone, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for pairing a point-of-sale device (POS) to a site controller (SC) are provided. The method includes: (1) transmitting, from the POS to the SC, via a legacy communication channel, a start pairing command; (2) generating, via the SC, a one-time password upon receiving the start pairing command; (3) transmitting, via the legacy communication channel, the one-time password from the SC to the POS; (4) transmitting, from the POS to the SC, a host CSR; (5) transmitting, from the SC to the POS, a host certificate, and an SSH-CA public key; (6) transmitting, from the POS to the SC, a user CSR; (7) transmitting, from the SC to the POS, a user certificate; (8) storing, via a memory of the POS, the host certificate, the user certificate, and the SSH-CA public key; and (9) removing keys corresponding to the legacy communication channel from the POS.